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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
In preparing financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”), management of the Sponsor makes estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, as well as the reported amount of revenue and expenses reported during the period. Actual results could differ from these estimates.
The accompanying unaudited financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP for interim financial information and with the instructions for Form 10-Q and the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed by the Trust and the Fund.
2.1. Basis of Presentation
The Sponsor has determined that the Trust and the Fund fall within the scope of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 946, Financial Services—Investment Companies, and has concluded that solely for accounting purposes, the Trust is classified as an Investment Company as defined in ASC 946.
The accompanying financial statements are presented for the Trust, as the registrant, combined with the Fund. Individual, series-level financial statements for the Fund are presented separately within this report. For the periods presented, there were no balances or activity for the Trust except for the Fund’s operations, as its sole series. These notes to the combined financial statements relate to the Trust, as the registrant, combined with the Fund. The debts, liabilities, obligations and expenses incurred, contracted for or otherwise existing with respect to the Fund are enforceable only against the assets of the Fund and not against the assets of the Trust generally or any other series that the Trust may establish. 2.2. Calculation of NAV and NAV per Share
The Sponsor has the exclusive authority to determine the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”). The Sponsor has delegated to the Administrator the responsibility to calculate the NAV of the Fund, based on a pricing source selected by the Sponsor. In determining the Fund's NAV, the Administrator values the Digital Assets held by the Fund based on the CF Reference Rates (defined below), unless the Sponsor in its sole discretion determines that such reference rates are unreliable. The Underlying Index values its Digital Assets based on the value of each applicable Digital Asset as measured by the corresponding CME CF Reference Rate–New York Variant for the U.S. Dollar trading pair (each a “CF Reference Rate”, and together, the “CF Reference Rates”), each of which are produced by the Index Provider. The CF Reference Rates shall constitute the primary Digital Asset pricing sources for the Underlying Index, unless one or more of the CF Reference Rates are not available or the Sponsor in its sole discretion determines one or more of the CF Reference Rates unreliable as a pricing source for the Fund and therefore determines not to use the CF Reference Rates to value the Digital Assets held by the Fund. If the CF Reference Rates are not available or the Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion, that one or more of the CF Reference Rates are unreliable (together a “Fair Value Event”), the Fund's holdings may be fair valued by the Sponsor. Additionally, the Administrator will monitor for unusual prices, and escalate to the Sponsor if detected. The Digital Assets included in the Underlying Index are weighted based on their free float market capitalization as determined by the Index Provider.
As of September 30, 2026, the Digital Assets in the Underlying Index and their weightings were as follows:
As of September 30, 2025, the Digital Assets in the Underlying Index and their weightings were as follows:
On each Business Day, as soon as practicable after 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (“ET”), the Administrator evaluates the Digital Assets held by the Fund as reflected by the CF Reference Rates and determines the NAV of the Fund. For purposes of making these calculations, a Business Day means any day other than a day when the Cboe BZX Exchange is closed for regular trading. The Trust’s periodic financial statements may not utilize this NAV of the Fund to the extent the methodology used to calculate the Underlying Index is deemed not to be consistent with GAAP.
2.3. Valuation of Digital Assets
The Trust’s and the Fund’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP for interim financial information. The Trust determines the fair value of Digital Assets based on the price provided by the Digital Assets market that the Trust considers its “Principal Market” as of 11:59:59PM ET on the valuation date. This fair value price is referred to as "Principal Market Price". With respect to the Fund’s Digital Asset holdings, the Trust follows the provisions of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures” (“ASC Topic 820”) and utilizes an exchange-traded price from the Fund’s Principal Market (or in the absence of a Principal Market, the most advantageous market) for Digital Assets as of the Fund’s financial statement measurement date.
ASC 820 established a hierarchy that prioritized inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The three levels of inputs are:
Level 1: Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;
Level 2: Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability either directly or indirectly, including quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not considered to be active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability, and inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means; and
Level 3: Inputs that are unobservable for the asset or liability, including the Fund’s assumptions used in determining the fair value of investments.
On September 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the values of the Digital Assets held by the Fund were categorized as Level 1.
2.4. Fees, Expenses, and Realized Gains (Losses) The Fund’s only ordinary recurring expense is the Sponsor’s fee. In exchange for the Sponsor’s fee, the Sponsor has agreed to assume the ordinary fees and expenses incurred by the Fund, including but not limited to the following: fees charged by the Administrator, the Marketing Agent, the Custodians (the Cash Custodian and Digital Asset Custodian, collectively) and the Trustee, Cboe BZX Exchange listing fees, Index Provider Fees, typical maintenance and transaction fees of the DTC, SEC registration fees, printing and mailing costs, tax reporting fees, audit fees, license fees and expenses, and up to $500,000 per annum in ordinary legal fees and expenses. The Sponsor paid the costs of the Trust's and the Fund’s organization and the initial offering costs and may not seek reimbursement of such costs. Digital Assets transactions are accounted for on a trade date basis. Realized gains or losses from the sale or disposition of Digital Assets are determined on a specific identification basis and recognized in the Combined Statements of Operations in the period in which the sale or disposition occurs.
The Sponsor’s fee, which is compensation for the Sponsor's services rendered to the Fund, is calculated and accrued daily at an annualized rate equal to 0.19% (i.e., 0.19%/365 days) of the net asset value of the Fund and is payable at least quarterly in arrears in U.S. dollars. The Sponsor may, at its sole discretion and from time to time, waive all or a portion of the Sponsor’s fee for stated periods of time. The Sponsor is under no obligation to waive any portion of its fees and any such waiver shall create no obligation to waive any such fees during any period not covered by the waiver.
The Fund will sell Digital Assets as needed to pay the Sponsor’s fee and will buy and sell Digital Assets to adjust the Fund’s investments to correspond with a rebalancing and/or reconstitution of the Underlying Index (including, in the case of a rebalancing, trading one or more Digital Assets for other Digital Assets). The Fund bears transaction costs, including any Digital Asset network fees or other similar transaction fees, in connection with any sales of Digital Assets necessary to pay the Sponsor’s fee, as well as other Fund expenses (if any) that are not assumed by the Sponsor (expenses assumed by the Sponsor are specified above), or in connection with any purchases or sales of Digital Assets to adjust the Fund’s investments to correspond with a rebalancing and/or reconstitution of the Underlying Index. Any Digital Asset network fees and similar transaction fees incurred in connection with the creation or redemption of Creation Units are borne by the Authorized Participant.
For the period from February 20, 2025 (the day the Shares were initially listed on the Exchange) to August 29, 2025, the Sponsor agreed to waive the entire Sponsor’s fee on the first $10.0 billion of the Fund’s assets. For the quarter ended September 30, 2026, the Fund accrued the Sponsor’s fee of $7,243 and nine months ended September 30, 2026, the Fund accrued the Sponsor’s fee of $17,192. The Sponsor is not required to pay any extraordinary or non-routine expenses. Extraordinary expenses are fees and expenses which are unexpected or unusual in nature, such as legal claims and liabilities and litigation costs or indemnification or other unanticipated expenses. Extraordinary fees and expenses also include material expenses which are not currently anticipated obligations of the Fund. The Fund will be responsible for the payment of such expenses to the extent any such expenses are incurred. Routine operational, administrative and other ordinary expenses are not deemed extraordinary expenses. In addition, the Fund may incur certain other non-recurring expenses that are not assumed by the Sponsor (expenses assumed by the Sponsor are described above), including but not limited to, taxes and governmental charges, any applicable brokerage commissions, Digital Asset network fees and similar transaction fees that qualify as extraordinary or non-routine expenses as described above, financing fees, expenses and costs of any extraordinary services performed by the Sponsor (or any other service provider) on behalf of the Fund to protect the Fund or the interests of Shareholders (including, for example, in connection with any fork of the Digital Asset blockchain, any Incidental Rights and any IR Virtual Currency); any indemnification of the Cash Custodian, Digital Asset Custodian, Prime Broker, Administrator or other agents, service providers or counterparties of the Trust or the Fund and extraordinary legal fees and expenses, including any legal fees and expenses incurred in connection with litigation, regulatory enforcement or investigation matters or legal expenses in excess of $500,000 per year. The Sponsor may determine in its sole discretion to assume legal fees and expenses of the Fund in excess of the $500,000 per annum stipulated in the Sponsor Agreement. There are no set circumstances in which the Sponsor has determined to assume legal fees and expenses in excess of the amount stipulated in the Sponsor Agreement, but such expenses may be assumed by the Sponsor, for example, to help the Fund achieve scale. To the extent that the Sponsor does not voluntarily assume such fees and expenses, they will be the responsibility of the Fund. Additionally, there is no cap on the aggregate amount of expenses that could be assumed by the Sponsor each year, except as otherwise described herein. The Trust’s and Fund’s organizational and offering costs are borne by the Sponsor and, as such, are the sole responsibility of the Sponsor. The Sponsor may not seek reimbursement or otherwise require the Fund, the Trust, the Trustee, or any Shareholder to assume any liability, duty or obligation in connection with any such organizational and offering costs. Because the Fund does not have any income, it will need to sell Digital Assets to cover the Sponsor’s fee and expenses not assumed by the Sponsor, if any. Fund expenses not assumed by the Sponsor shall accrue daily and be payable by the Fund to the Sponsor at least quarterly in arrears. The Fund may also be subject to other liabilities (for example, as a result of litigation) that have also not been assumed by the Sponsor. The only source of funds to cover those liabilities will be sales of Digital Assets held by the Fund. Even if there are no expenses other than those assumed by the Sponsor, and there are no other liabilities of the Fund, the Fund will still need to sell Digital Assets to pay the Sponsor’s fee. The result of these sales is a decrease in the amount of Digital Assets represented by each Share.
There have been no extraordinary or non-routine expenses during the periods presented.
To cover the Sponsor’s fee and expenses not assumed by the Sponsor, the Sponsor or its delegate will cause the Fund to convert Digital Assets into U.S. dollars generally at the price available through the Prime Broker’s Coinbase Prime service (less applicable trading fees) through the Trading Platform which the Sponsor is able to obtain using commercially reasonable efforts. The number of Digital Assets represented by a Share will decline each time the Fund pays the Sponsor’s fee or any Fund expenses not assumed by the Sponsor by transferring or selling Digital Assets. The quantity of Digital Assets to be sold to permit payment of the Sponsor’s fee or Fund expenses not assumed by the Sponsor, will vary from time to time depending on the level of the Fund’s expenses and the value of Digital Assets held by the Fund.
2.5. Digital Assets Receivable and Payable Digital assets receivable or payable represents the quantity of digital assets covered by contractually binding orders for the creation or redemption of Shares respectively, where the digital asset has not yet been transferred to or from the Fund's account. Generally, ownership of the Digital Assets is transferred within one business day of the trade date (referred to as "T+1"). 2.6. Income Taxes
The Trust is organized and operated as a statutory trust in accordance with the provisions of the Declaration of Trust and applicable Delaware law. The Fund is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The Fund does not record a provision for U.S. federal, U.S. state or local income taxes because the Shareholders report their share of the Fund’s income or loss on their income tax returns. The Fund files annual partnership returns, and each U.S. Shareholder is required to report on its U.S. federal income tax return its allocable share of the income, gain, loss, deductions and credits reflected on such partnership returns.
The Fund is required to determine whether its tax positions are more likely than not to be sustained on examination by the applicable taxing authority, based on the technical merits of the position. Tax positions not deemed to meet a more likely than not threshold would be recorded as a tax expense in the current year. As of September 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the Trust and the Fund have determined that no provision for income taxes is required and no liability for unrecognized tax benefits has been recorded. However, the Trust’s and the Fund's conclusions may be subject to review and adjustment at a later date based on factors including, but not limited to, the nexus of income among various tax jurisdictions; compliance with U.S. federal, U.S. state, and other tax laws of jurisdictions in which the Trust and the Fund operate; and changes in the administrative practices and precedents of the relevant authorities. The Fund is required to analyze all open tax years. Open tax years are those years that are open for examination by the relevant income taxing authority.
2.7. Creation and Redemption of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Creation Units on a continuous basis. Creation Units are issued or redeemed in exchange for an amount of Digital Assets and/or cash as determined by the Administrator on each day that Cboe BZX Exchange is open for regular trading.
For creation transactions conducted in cash, the amount of cash required to be delivered to the Fund will equal the amount of cash needed to purchase the amount of Digital Assets represented by the Creation Unit(s) being created, as calculated by the Administrator, plus applicable fees, costs and adjustments. For redemption transactions conducted in cash, the Sponsor will arrange for the Digital Assets represented by the Creation Unit(s) being redeemed to be sold and the cash proceeds, after applicable fees, costs and adjustments, distributed. No Shares are issued until the corresponding amount of Digital Assets have been received in the Fund’s Trading Balance. Creation Units may be created or redeemed only by Authorized Participants, who pay (1) a transaction fee for each order to create or redeem Creation Units; (2) transfer, processing and other transaction costs charged by the Digital Asset Custodian in connection with the issuance or redemption of Creation Units for such order; and (3) any other expenses, taxes, charges or adjustments.
Creation Units will be sold at a per-Share offering price that will vary depending on, among other things, the price of Digital Assets and the trading price of the Shares on the Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. at the time of the offer. Shares offered at different times may have different offering prices. Prior to the commencement of the Fund’s investment operations on February 20, 2025, there was no public market for the Shares.
Changes in the Shares for the quarter from July 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026 are as follows:
Changes in the Shares for the quarter from July 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025 are as follows:
Changes in the Shares for the nine months from January 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026 are as follows:
Changes in the Shares for the period from February 20, 2025 (Date of commencement of operations) to September 30, 2025 are as follows:
# Dollar amount of balance represents the cumulative fair value of creation of Shares less the redemption of Shares, at the time of the specific creation or redemption. ^ On January 22, 2025, Franklin Resources, Inc. (the “Seed Capital Investor”), an affiliate of the Sponsor, subject to conditions, purchased 4,000 Shares at a per-Share price equal to $25.00 (the “Initial Seed Shares”). Delivery of the Initial Seed Shares was made on January 22, 2025. Total proceeds to the Fund from the sale of the Initial Seed Shares were $100,000. On February 10, 2025, the Initial Seed Shares were redeemed for $100,000, and the Seed Capital Investor purchased two Creation Units in a cash transaction comprised of a total of 100,000 Shares at a per-Share price based on 11.06240875 bitcoin and 61.7774073 ether per Creation Unit, for a total of 22.1248175 bitcoin and 123.5548146 ether (the “Seed Creation Units”). The cash proceeds to the Fund from the sale of the Seed Creation Units were used by the Fund to purchase 22.1248175 bitcoin at the price of $97,227.80 per bitcoin and 123.5548146 ether at the price of $2,665.23 per ether on February 10, 2025 (exclusive of transaction and other costs incurred in connection with the conversion of the cash proceeds to bitcoin and ether respectively, which were paid by the Seed Capital Investor). Thus, the ultimate total proceeds to the Fund from the sale of the Seed Creation Units were $2,480,449.33 (an amount representing 22.1248175 bitcoin and 123.5548146 ether) representing 100,000 shares at a per-Share price equal to $24.80. Further, the transaction and other costs incurred in connection with the Seed Creation Units were paid by the Seed Capital Investor and not borne by the Fund. |
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SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
In preparing financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”), management of the Sponsor makes estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, as well as the reported amount of revenue and expenses reported during the period. Actual results could differ from these estimates.
The accompanying unaudited financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP for interim financial information and with the instructions for Form 10-Q and the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed by the Trust and the Fund.
2.1. Basis of Presentation
The Sponsor has determined that the Trust and the Fund fall within the scope of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 946, Financial Services—Investment Companies, and has concluded that solely for accounting purposes, the Trust is classified as an Investment Company as defined in ASC 946.
The accompanying unaudited financial statements are presented for the Fund, which is the sole series of the Trust, at the individual, series level. Financial statements and accompanying notes for the Trust, as the registrant, combined with the Fund are provided separately in this report. For the periods presented, there were no balances or activity for the Trust except for the Fund's operations, as its sole series. These notes to the financial statements relate to the Fund, which is the sole series of the Trust, and are unaudited. The debts, liabilities, obligations and expenses incurred, contracted for or otherwise existing with respect to the Fund are enforceable only against the assets of the Fund and not against the assets of the Trust generally or any other series that the Trust may establish.
2.2. Calculation of NAV and NAV per Share
The Sponsor has the exclusive authority to determine the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”). The Sponsor has delegated to the Administrator the responsibility to calculate the NAV of the Fund, based on a pricing source selected by the Sponsor. In determining the Fund's NAV, the Administrator values the Digital Assets held by the Fund based on the CF Reference Rates (defined below), unless the Sponsor in its sole discretion determines that such reference rates are unreliable. The Underlying Index values its Digital Assets based on the value of each applicable Digital Asset as measured by the corresponding CME CF Reference Rate–New York Variant for the U.S. Dollar trading pair (each a “CF Reference Rate”, and together, the “CF Reference Rates”), each of which are produced by the Index Provider. The CF Reference Rates shall constitute the primary Digital Asset pricing sources for the Underlying Index, unless one or more of the CF Reference Rates are not available or the Sponsor in its sole discretion determines one or more of the CF Reference Rates unreliable as a pricing source for the Fund and therefore determines not to use the CF Reference Rates to value the Digital Assets held by the Fund. If the CF Reference Rates are not available or the Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion, that one or more of the CF Reference Rates are unreliable (together a “Fair Value Event”), the Fund's holdings may be fair valued by the Sponsor. Additionally, the Administrator will monitor for unusual prices, and escalate to the Sponsor if detected. The Digital Assets included in the Underlying Index are weighted based on their free float market capitalization as determined by the Index Provider.
As of September 30, 2026, the Digital Assets in the Underlying Index and their weightings were as follows:
As of September 30, 2025, the Digital Assets in the Underlying Index and their weightings were as follows:
On each Business Day, as soon as practicable after 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (“ET”), the Administrator evaluates the Digital Assets held by the Fund as reflected by the CF Reference Rates and determines the NAV of the Fund. For purposes of making these calculations, a Business Day means any day other than a day when the Cboe BZX Exchange is closed for regular trading. The Fund’s periodic financial statements may not utilize this NAV of the Fund to the extent the methodology used to calculate the Underlying Index is deemed not to be consistent with GAAP.
2.3. Valuation of Digital Assets
The Trust’s and the Fund’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with GAAP for interim financial information. The Fund determines the fair value of Digital Assets based on the price provided by the Digital Assets market that the Fund considers its “Principal Market” as of 11:59:59PM ET on the valuation date. This fair value price is referred to as "Principal Market Price". With respect to the Fund’s Digital Asset holdings, the Trust follows the provisions of the Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 820, “Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures” (“ASC Topic 820”) and utilizes an exchange-traded price from the Fund’s Principal Market (or in the absence of a Principal Market, the most advantageous market) for Digital Assets as of the Fund’s financial statement measurement date.
ASC 820 established a hierarchy that prioritized inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The three levels of inputs are:
Level 1: Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;
Level 2: Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability either directly or indirectly, including quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not considered to be active, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability, and inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means; and
Level 3: Inputs that are unobservable for the asset or liability, including the Fund’s assumptions used in determining the fair value of investments.
On September 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the values of the Digital Assets held by the Fund were categorized as Level 1.
2.4. Fees, Expenses, and Realized Gains (Losses) The Fund’s only ordinary recurring expense is the Sponsor’s fee. In exchange for the Sponsor’s fee, the Sponsor has agreed to assume the ordinary fees and expenses incurred by the Fund, including but not limited to the following: fees charged by the Administrator, the Marketing Agent, the Custodians (the Cash Custodian and Digital Asset Custodian, collectively) and the Trustee, Cboe BZX Exchange listing fees, Index Provider Fees, typical maintenance and transaction fees of the DTC, SEC registration fees, printing and mailing costs, tax reporting fees, audit fees, license fees and expenses, and up to $500,000 per annum in ordinary legal fees and expenses. The Sponsor paid the costs of the Trust's and the Fund’s organization and the initial offering costs and may not seek reimbursement of such costs. Digital Assets transactions are accounted for on a trade date basis. Realized gains or losses from the sale or disposition of Digital Assets are determined on a specific identification basis and recognized in the Statements of Operations in the period in which the sale or disposition occurs. The Sponsor’s fee, which is compensation for the Sponsor's services rendered to the Fund, is calculated and accrued daily at an annualized rate equal to 0.19% (i.e., 0.19%/365 days) of the net asset value of the Fund and is payable at least quarterly in arrears in U.S. dollars. The Sponsor may, at its sole discretion and from time to time, waive all or a portion of the Sponsor’s fee for stated periods of time. The Sponsor is under no obligation to waive any portion of its fees and any such waiver shall create no obligation to waive any such fees during any period not covered by the waiver.
The Fund will sell Digital Assets as needed to pay the Sponsor’s fee and will buy and sell Digital Assets to adjust the Fund’s investments to correspond with a rebalancing and/or reconstitution of the Underlying Index (including, in the case of a rebalancing, trading one or more Digital Assets for other Digital Assets). The Fund bears transaction costs, including any Digital Asset network fees or other similar transaction fees, in connection with any sales of Digital Assets necessary to pay the Sponsor’s fee, as well as other Fund expenses (if any) that are not assumed by the Sponsor (expenses assumed by the Sponsor are specified above), or in connection with any purchases or sales of Digital Assets to adjust the Fund’s investments to correspond with a rebalancing and/or reconstitution of the Underlying Index. Any Digital Asset network fees and similar transaction fees incurred in connection with the creation or redemption of Creation Units are borne by the Authorized Participant.
For the period from February 20, 2025 (the day the Shares were initially listed on the Exchange) to August 29, 2025, the Sponsor agreed to waive the entire Sponsor’s fee on the first $10.0 billion of the Fund’s assets. For the quarter ended September 30, 2026, the Fund accrued the Sponsor’s fee of $7,243 and nine months ended September 30, 2026, the Fund accrued the Sponsor’s fee of $17,192. The Sponsor is not required to pay any extraordinary or non-routine expenses. Extraordinary expenses are fees and expenses which are unexpected or unusual in nature, such as legal claims and liabilities and litigation costs or indemnification or other unanticipated expenses. Extraordinary fees and expenses also include material expenses which are not currently anticipated obligations of the Fund. The Fund will be responsible for the payment of such expenses to the extent any such expenses are incurred. Routine operational, administrative and other ordinary expenses are not deemed extraordinary expenses. In addition, the Fund may incur certain other non-recurring expenses that are not assumed by the Sponsor (expenses assumed by the Sponsor are described above), including but not limited to, taxes and governmental charges, any applicable brokerage commissions, Digital Asset network fees and similar transaction fees that qualify as extraordinary or non-routine expenses as described above, financing fees, expenses and costs of any extraordinary services performed by the Sponsor (or any other service provider) on behalf of the Fund to protect the Fund or the interests of Shareholders (including, for example, in connection with any fork of the Digital Asset blockchain, any Incidental Rights and any IR Virtual Currency); any indemnification of the Cash Custodian, Digital Asset Custodian, Prime Broker, Administrator or other agents, service providers or counterparties of the Trust or the Fund and extraordinary legal fees and expenses, including any legal fees and expenses incurred in connection with litigation, regulatory enforcement or investigation matters or legal expenses in excess of $500,000 per year. The Sponsor may determine in its sole discretion to assume legal fees and expenses of the Fund in excess of the $500,000 per annum stipulated in the Sponsor Agreement. There are no set circumstances in which the Sponsor has determined to assume legal fees and expenses in excess of the amount stipulated in the Sponsor Agreement, but such expenses may be assumed by the Sponsor, for example, to help the Fund achieve scale. To the extent that the Sponsor does not voluntarily assume such fees and expenses, they will be the responsibility of the Fund. Additionally, there is no cap on the aggregate amount of expenses that could be assumed by the Sponsor each year, except as otherwise described herein. The Trust’s and Fund’s organizational and offering costs are borne by the Sponsor and, as such, are the sole responsibility of the Sponsor. The Sponsor may not seek reimbursement or otherwise require the Fund, the Trust, the Trustee, or any Shareholder to assume any liability, duty or obligation in connection with any such organizational and offering costs. Because the Fund does not have any income, it will need to sell Digital Assets to cover the Sponsor’s fee and expenses not assumed by the Sponsor, if any. Fund expenses not assumed by the Sponsor shall accrue daily and be payable by the Fund to the Sponsor at least quarterly in arrears. The Fund may also be subject to other liabilities (for example, as a result of litigation) that have also not been assumed by the Sponsor. The only source of funds to cover those liabilities will be sales of Digital Assets held by the Fund. Even if there are no expenses other than those assumed by the Sponsor, and there are no other liabilities of the Fund, the Fund will still need to sell Digital Assets to pay the Sponsor’s fee. The result of these sales is a decrease in the amount of Digital Assets represented by each Share. There have been no extraordinary or non-routine expenses during the periods presented.
To cover the Sponsor’s fee and expenses not assumed by the Sponsor, the Sponsor or its delegate will cause the Fund to convert Digital Assets into U.S. dollars generally at the price available through the Prime Broker’s Coinbase Prime service (less applicable trading fees) through the Trading Platform which the Sponsor is able to obtain using commercially reasonable efforts. The number of Digital Assets represented by a Share will decline each time the Fund pays the Sponsor’s fee or any Fund expenses not assumed by the Sponsor by transferring or selling Digital Assets. The quantity of Digital Assets to be sold to permit payment of the Sponsor’s fee or Fund expenses not assumed by the Sponsor, will vary from time to time depending on the level of the Fund’s expenses and the value of Digital Assets held by the Fund.
2.5. Digital Assets Receivable and Payable Digital assets receivable or payable represents the quantity of digital assets covered by contractually binding orders for the creation or redemption of Shares respectively, where the digital asset has not yet been transferred to or from the Fund's account. Generally, ownership of the Digital Assets is transferred within one business day of the trade date (referred to as "T+1"). 2.6. Income Taxes
The Trust is organized and operated as a statutory trust in accordance with the provisions of the Declaration of Trust and applicable Delaware law. The Fund is treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The Fund does not record a provision for U.S. federal, U.S. state or local income taxes because the Shareholders report their share of the Fund’s income or loss on their income tax returns. The Fund files annual partnership returns, and each U.S. Shareholder is required to report on its U.S. federal income tax return its allocable share of the income, gain, loss, deductions and credits reflected on such partnership returns.
The Fund is required to determine whether its tax positions are more likely than not to be sustained on examination by the applicable taxing authority, based on the technical merits of the position. Tax positions not deemed to meet a more likely than not threshold would be recorded as a tax expense in the current year. As of September 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, the Trust and the Fund have determined that no provision for income taxes is required and no liability for unrecognized tax benefits has been recorded. However, the Trust’s and the Fund's conclusions may be subject to review and adjustment at a later date based on factors including, but not limited to, the nexus of income among various tax jurisdictions; compliance with U.S. federal, U.S. state, and other tax laws of jurisdictions in which the Trust and the Fund operate; and changes in the administrative practices and precedents of the relevant authorities. The Fund is required to analyze all open tax years. Open tax years are those years that are open for examination by the relevant income taxing authority. 2.7. Creation and Redemption of Shares
The Fund issues and redeems Creation Units on a continuous basis. Creation Units are issued or redeemed in exchange for an amount of Digital Assets and/or cash as determined by the Administrator on each day that Cboe BZX Exchange is open for regular trading.
For creation transactions conducted in cash, the amount of cash required to be delivered to the Fund will equal the amount of cash needed to purchase the amount of Digital Assets represented by the Creation Unit(s) being created, as calculated by the Administrator, plus applicable fees, costs and adjustments. For redemption transactions conducted in cash, the Sponsor will arrange for the Digital Assets represented by the Creation Unit(s) being redeemed to be sold and the cash proceeds, after applicable fees, costs and adjustments, distributed. No Shares are issued until the corresponding amount of Digital Assets have been received in the Fund’s Trading Balance. Creation Units may be created or redeemed only by Authorized Participants, who pay (1) a transaction fee for each order to create or redeem Creation Units; (2) transfer, processing and other transaction costs charged by the Digital Asset Custodian in connection with the issuance or redemption of Creation Units for such order; and (3) any other expenses, taxes, charges or adjustments.
Creation Units will be sold at a per-Share offering price that will vary depending on, among other things, the price of Digital Assets and the trading price of the Shares on the Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. at the time of the offer. Shares offered at different times may have different offering prices. Prior to the commencement of the Fund’s investment operations on February 20, 2025, there was no public market for the Shares.
Changes in the Shares for the quarter from July 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026 are as follows:
Changes in the Shares for the quarter from July 1, 2025 to September 30, 2025 are as follows:
Changes in the Shares for the nine months from January 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026 are as follows:
Changes in the Shares for the period from February 20, 2025 (Date of commencement of operations) to September 30, 2025 are as follows:
# Dollar amount of balance represents the cumulative fair value of creation of Shares less the redemption of Shares, at the time of the specific creation or redemption. ^ On January 22, 2025, Franklin Resources, Inc. (the “Seed Capital Investor”), an affiliate of the Sponsor, subject to conditions, purchased 4,000 Shares at a per-Share price equal to $25.00 (the “Initial Seed Shares”). Delivery of the Initial Seed Shares was made on January 22, 2025. Total proceeds to the Fund from the sale of the Initial Seed Shares were $100,000. On February 10, 2025, the Initial Seed Shares were redeemed for $100,000, and the Seed Capital Investor purchased two Creation Units in a cash transaction comprised of a total of 100,000 Shares at a per-Share price based on 11.06240875 bitcoin and 61.7774073 ether per Creation Unit, for a total of 22.1248175 bitcoin and 123.5548146 ether (the “Seed Creation Units”). The cash proceeds to the Fund from the sale of the Seed Creation Units were used by the Fund to purchase 22.1248175 bitcoin at the price of $97,227.80 per bitcoin and 123.5548146 ether at the price of $2,665.23 per ether on February 10, 2025 (exclusive of transaction and other costs incurred in connection with the conversion of the cash proceeds to bitcoin and ether respectively, which were paid by the Seed Capital Investor). Thus, the ultimate total proceeds to the Fund from the sale of the Seed Creation Units were $2,480,449.33 (an amount representing 22.1248175 bitcoin and 123.5548146 ether) representing 100,000 shares at a per-Share price equal to $24.80. Further, the transaction and other costs incurred in connection with the Seed Creation Units were paid by the Seed Capital Investor and not borne by the Fund. |
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